Roberto Tejada, the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches creative writing and art history, will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar lecture at 5:30 p.m. March 20 in Richards Hall, Room 15. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The School of Art, Art History and Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students.
A translator, editor, essayist, art historian and cultural critic, Tejada was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Poetry in 2021.
He is the author of art and media histories “National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment” (2009) and “Celia Alvarez Muñoz” (2009), as well as catalog essays in “Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980” (Hammer Museum, 2011) and “Allora and Calzadilla: Specters of Noon” (The Menil Collection, 2021).
His poetry collections include “Why the Assembly Disbanded” (2022), “Todo en el ahora” (2015), “Full Foreground” (2012), “Exposition Park” (2010) and “Mirrors for Gold” (2006), as well as “Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness” (2019), a Latinx poetics on colonial settlement and cultural counter-conquest in art and literature of the Americas.
His writing spans method, discipline and form to address the political imagination and impurity of time in shared image environments.
The remaining lectures in the series are:
• March 27: Isabel Barbuzza. Barbuzza is professor in the sculpture and intermedia program in the University of Iowa’s School of Art and Art History. As a sculptor, she works in installations, objects and site-specific; she is interested in the power of materiality and the narratives that accompany them.
• April 10: Kim Dorland. Dorland lives and works in Toronto. He pushes the boundaries of painted representation through an exploration of memory, material, nostalgia, identity and place. He has exhibited globally.
• April 24: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, public art and multimedia installation. She is a Forbes Under 30 lister, a Mellon Foundation fellow, and in 2018, she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
Each lecture takes place at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall, Room 15.
Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History and Design at 402-472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.
